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Scholarly Activity

Travel Plans (SUMMER 2009)

May 2009  Collaboration with Masayuki Yamasaki (expected funding), Okayama University of Science, JAPAN
01--05 Jun 2009  International Conference: "Topology and Geometry at Münster" (expected participant), Universität Münster, GERMANY

Journal Referee Services

Journal of Topology (2008)
Topology and its Applications (2007)

Conference Organization

14--15 Apr 2007      Nil Phenomena in Topology
Vanderbilt University, Nashville TN USA
mainly funded by NSF Workshop Grant DMS-0715422 (co-Principal Investigator: C. Bruce Hughes)

Research Lectures

01 Jul 2008   The Nil-Nil theorem in algebraic K-theory
Oberseminar Topologie, Mathematisches Institut, Universität Bonn, Bonn GERMANY
13 Jun 2008   The Nil-Nil theorem in algebraic K-theory
Topologiseminar, Matematisk Institutt, Universitetet i Oslo, Oslo NORWAY
21 May 2008   The Nil-Nil theorem in algebraic K-theory
Geometry of Transformation Groups and Related Topics, Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Kyoto JAPAN
16 May 2008   Algebraic K-theory over the infinite dihedral group
Topology Seminar, Okayama University of Science, Okayama JAPAN
NilNilTheoremWithApplication.pdf
Slides of 45-minute talk
05 Apr 2008   Algebraic K-theory over the infinite dihedral group
Spring Central AMS Conference, Special Session: "Algebraic K-theory and Nil groups in Algebra & Topology"
Indiana University, Bloomington IN USA
NilNilTheorem.pdf
Slides of 20-minute talk
15 Mar 2008   Algebraic K-theory over the infinite dihedral group
Spring Eastern AMS Conference, Special Session: "Geometric Topology"
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences (NYU), New York NY USA
04 Mar 2008   The Nil-Nil theorem in algebraic K-theory
Topology Seminar, The Ohio State University, Columbus OH USA

Splitting5ManifoldsOverCircle.pdf
Slides of 45-minute talk
19 Sep 2007   Splitting and fibering 5-manifolds over the circle
Topology & Group Theory Seminar, Vanderbilt University, Nashville TN USA
02 Aug 2007   Splitting and fibering 5-manifolds over the circle
Topological and Geometric Rigidity, Banff International Research Station, Banff CANADA
08 Jan 2007      On the calculation of UNil for finite groups
Geometry, Topology, and their Interactions, Instituto de Matemáticas (UNAM), Morelia MEXICO

30 Aug 2006    Splitting homotopy equivalences between manifolds, I
06 Sep 2006    Splitting homotopy equivalences between manifolds, II
Topology & Group Theory Seminar, Vanderbilt University, Nashville TN USA

27 Oct 2005    L-theory of type III virtually cyclic groups
Topology-Algebra Seminar, Miami University, Oxford OH USA
25 Oct 2005    L-theory of type III virtually cyclic groups
Topology Seminar, Indiana University, Bloomington IN USA
01 Jul 2005    Manifolds homotopy equivalent to RPn # RPn (given jointly with Jeremy Brookman)
Algebraic K- and L-theory of Infinite Groups, International Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Edinburgh SCOTLAND

10 Nov 2004   Stable homeomorphisms of 4-manifolds with infinite fundamental group
Topology Seminar, Indiana University, Bloomington IN USA

Reading Talks

10 Oct 2007   Computation with the p-chain spectral sequence
Topology & Group Theory Seminar, Vanderbilt University, Nashville TN USA
18 Aug 2006   Sullivan's characteristic variety theorem, Part II
The Hauptvermutung for High-dimensional Manifolds, Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, Oberwolfach GERMANY
01 Mar 2006   Controlled topology, Part I
Automorphisms of Manifolds, Massachussetts Institute of Technology, Talbot House in North Conway NH USA

19 Oct 2004    The homotopy 2k-type of the Thom space MO(k)
continued on 26, 28 Oct 2004 and 02, 04 November 2004
Thom Cobordism Seminar, Indiana University, Bloomington IN USA
28 Jan 2003    Entire manifolds of minimal geodesics
21 Jan 2003   Lie groups as symmetric spaces
26 Sep 2002   Morse lemma in Euclidean space
Morse Theory Seminar I-II, Indiana University, Bloomington IN USA